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...House. Insurgent tactics in the House are similar to those in the Senate. But there is a prospect of more delay in organization. Frederick Huntington Gillett, Speaker of the House during the last two Congresses, is the gentleman at whose expense the game may be played. For the last 30 years, continuously, he has represented the Second District of Massachusetts in Congress, a thoroughly seasoned parliamentarian, valuable to the regular Republicans and not very objectionable to other groups. The Democrats will nominate to run against him, Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, Democratic floor leader in the last House...
...guessed that the insurgents will adopt obstructionist tactics of this kind; that after a deadlock has continued, possibly for several days, the regular Republicans will make certain concessions on important committee memberships; that then probably Mr. Gillett will be elected. The compromises may be made with the insurgents or with Democrats, or both. The Democrats want the Republicans to have the Speakership, and, for due concessions, enough Democrats might leave the floor to give the regular Republicans a majority...
Frederick H. Gillett of Springfield, Mass., Speaker of the House. He is an Amherst graduate, class of '74. He has served in Congress continuously since...
...anything, but if it should, it could declare it was the tail which wags the U. S. dog?because of the number of New Englanders high placed in the Government. Its sons include: President Coolidge of Massachusetts; Chief Justice Taft of Connecticut; Secretary of War Weeks of Massachusetts; Speaker Gillett of Massachusetts (if reflected); Majority Leader Lodge in the Senate (also Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee) ; Chairmen of every "important" Senate Committee, except three, to wit?McLean of Connecticut, Banking and Currency; Hale of Maine, Naval Affairs; Colt of Rhode Island, Immigration; Moses of New Hampshire, Privileges and Elections...
Following these events, Secretary Wallace and Speaker Gillett took autos to follow the original plan of the party by traveling over the Richardson Trail and taking the Copper River Railroad to Cordova. Secretaries Work and Hoover took train back to Anchorage and later to Seward to hold hearings on the complaints and proposals of Alaskans. The President and Mrs. Harding followed the two latter in a more leisurely fashion...